"The first bowl of wine, this one will toast to the hundred thousand heroic souls buried here. This one promises to find all their bones and bring them back to Ming for burial!”After Zhu Di finished speaking, he spilled the wine in his bowl on the ground. The Ming soldiers also shouted,
"To Heroic Souls!" He spilled the wine on the floor.
"The second bowl of wine is for the four hundred brave warriors who braved arrows and stones to capture the Great Khan of Tartar alive. After returning to the capital, I will reward them according to their merits. Cheers!" With that, he finished the wine in his bowl in one gulp.
"To the warriors! Cheers!" The Ming soldiers drank again and finished the wine in their bowls.
Zhu Zhanji, who was sitting next to Zhu Di, quickly stood up and finished the wine in his bowl. The 400 guards followed suit!
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Zhu Gaoxu whispered to Zhu Gaosui,""Third brother, why didn't the old master praise the little brat in front of everyone? Instead, he gave all the credit to those guards? Little fellow, have you fallen out of favor?"
Zhu Gaosui said," Second Brother, this little brat is the eldest grandson. After this battle, he will be the grandson of the Emperor. What does he need these merits for?"”
"The old master is helping the little brat build up his power!”
Zhu Gaoxu chuckled,"In the end, it's still easy for us brothers."”
"Does Second Brother still have the confidence to control those people? Aren't you worried that they'll follow the little brat wholeheartedly?”
"Third Younger Brother, are you trying to get Second Older Brother to tell you something?”Zhu Gaoxu asked without showing any emotion.
Zhu Gaosui cursed in his heart, When did Second become so smart?
"Look at what Second Brother is saying. We brothers are on the same boat…" he said with a smile.
"Then isn't Third Brother afraid that he won't be able to control your people?”Zhu Gaoxu ignored Zhu Gaosui's explanation and asked.
"Of course I'm afraid of that. However, my brother still has some leverage on me, so it should be of some use!”
"Then the situation between us brothers is similar. The old master is watching closely. Let's talk after returning to the capital!”
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"This third bowl of wine, zhen wants to toast to the soldiers of Great Ming. The soldiers of Great Ming are all my brothers.
Everyone has worked hard! Cheers to our comrades!" Zhu Di downed two large bowls of wine in a row!
"To our comrades! Cheers!" The Ming army soldiers shouted again and then finished the wine in their bowls. When they heard the Emperor call the Ming army soldiers his brothers, their hearts burned with passion, and they felt as if they would die for those who knew them well.
"Alright, sit down. Let's eat and talk! Hurry up and taste these fat sheep. These are all my grandchildren who led people to seize them. The sheep we brought is not enough for me to reward the three armies! Hahaha!"
After two big bowls of wine, the atmosphere of the banquet became relaxed, and the soldiers became more casual!
"Thank you for the mutton that Taisun seized…"
"Thank you, Lord Thousand Years, for giving us meat to eat…"
"Thank you, Lord Taisun, for giving us wine to drink…"
"My entire family is grateful to Grandpa Great-Sun!”
"Haha ~"
Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanji, who was a little confused, and smiled.""This group of rough people are very bold to drink a few bowls of horse urine. If I hadn't captured the Tartar Khan Benyashili and seized their national seal, I wouldn't have let them drink at this time!”
"It's good to be straightforward. There aren't so many twists and turns.”
" Ji 'er's words are too blunt. Grandfather also thinks so. It's too tiring to talk to civil officials…"
Yang Rong and Jin Youzi, the two Grand Scholars, were not far away. Zhu Laosi's words made them feel a headache. After finding that they were not natural, Zhu Laosi continued,"
"Ji 'er, you have to remember that the difference between a good person and a bad person doesn't depend on their background or what they do…"
"For example, are all civil officials good people? No, there were always some corrupt scum who harmed the people.
Were all the generals good people? Not really. There were always some arrogant and despotic scumbags from evil places.
Ji 'er can't just listen to your father's old ways and blindly get close to the civil officials! The way to govern a country was to use both civil and military skills. The former Song Dynasty had an imbalance between civil and military skills, which was why the Jin people and the Tatars 'ancestors took turns to beat them until they had diarrhea and destroyed the country...
The enemy had already reached their doorstep, yet the Song Imperial Court was still hoping that the enemy would be magnanimous and shamelessly sell the Empress Dowager, Empress, Concubines, Princesses, and other women of the imperial clan to the foreign enemy, the Jin people, as prostitutes. They would be wantonly abused and humiliated by the Jin people…
The Jin army had come and gone with joy. They had escorted Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty, as well as the men and women of the royal family, the concubines, the officials, the nobles, and the women of the courtiers back to their hometown. At the same time, they had also taken away countless goods, gold, silver, jewelry, antique paintings, and historical books. Those were all the treasures of our Han ancestors, as well as the people's wealth of the Great Song Dynasty…
……
The pregnant empresses and princesses of the Song Dynasty were forcibly aborted for the Jin people to vent their desires. Zhao Gou's original wife, Xing Bingyi, was already pregnant at that time, but the Jin people took turns to vent their desires, causing her to lose her child. Zhao Gou, who supported the Southern Song Dynasty, had no choice but to grit his teeth and endure it, flattering the Jin people.
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After they were captured to the Jin Kingdom, Emperor Huizong, Emperor Qinzong, and a group of Song royal men and women held a 'sheep-leading ceremony' naked in front of countless Jin people in the capital of the Jin Kingdom…"
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The sheep-leading ceremony sounded quite simple!
The captives were made to be naked and covered in bloody sheepskin. Then, a rope was tied around their necks, and they were led by the Jin Kingdom people to kowtow to the ancestors of the golden men one by one.
The meaning was to make the captives submit, change their sect and master, and be like sheep at the mercy of their master.
However, for the ancient literati, they had always respected the idea of "a scholar can be killed but not humiliated". Death was a small matter, but losing integrity was a big matter.
The sheep-leading ceremony was extremely cruel to the mind.
For women, in the feudal era, it was crueler to be naked in public than to kill them with a knife.
Modern society might not be able to feel the importance of "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame" under the majestic constraints of feudal ethics.
Perhaps this was a remnant of feudalism, but to completely abandon it was even more unacceptable.
After all,'propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame' have always been something that we have passed down for thousands of years.
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